Bolster-stake holder.



G. FAUST.

BOLSTEB. STAKE HOLDER.

APPLIOATION FILED DOT. 9, 1913.

Patented Dec. 23, 1913.

CASPER FAUST, OF OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN.

BOLSTER-STA'KE HOLDER.

Application filed October 9, 1913.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Cnsrnn FAUST, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Oshkosh, in the county of /Vinnebago and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bolster-- Stake Holders; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple, economical and effective releasable bolstenstake holder for attachment to flat cars or the like, the same being an improvement of that general type of stake holders for which an application for patent was filed by me April 11, 1913, Serial No. 760,456.

1th the above object in view the. invention consists in certain structural elements and combination of parts as hereinafter set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and subsequently claimed.

In the drawings Figure 1 represents a side elevation of a bolster stake holder embodying the features of my invention, the same being shown attached to the side sill of a car, with parts broken away and in section to more clearly illustrate details of construction; Fig. 2, a sectional view of the same, the section being indicated by line it -00 of Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a similar sectional plan view of the bolster stake holder showing means for attaching it to a bolster block, which block is arranged transversely of the car floor and adapted to serve as a seat for the load of logs or analogous "freight, and Fig. l, a sectional plan view of another :l'orm of my invention, wherein the cheek-pieces forming the movable jaws are each hinged.

Referring by characters to the drawings, 25 represents the side sill of a canframe having bolted thereto a bracket, which bracket is provided with a base-plate 2G and an integral jaw member 27 that is curved at its end to partially form the mouth portion or" a stake socket. The stake socket is completed by a similarly curved cheek-piece 28, which cheek-piece is provided with an apertured shank car 28 that is nested between apertured knuckles 26 that form part 01? the bracket. The l-:nuckle-joint between the movable cheek-piece and the bracket is completed by a pintle-bolt 29, which pintle-bolt passes through the apertures of the bracket knuckles and car 28 of the said cheek-piece. Attention is called to the fact that the mov- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 23,1913.

Serial No. 794,192.

able or hinged cheek-piece 28 is of less width than the rigid cheek-piece 27, whereby the said movable cheek-piece is protected, due to the fact that the logs, when discharged from the side 01 the an will roll over the high face of the fixed cheek-piece 27. It is also apparent that the stake-holder elements just described can be reversed for either right or left hand stake sockets.

l lxtending from the fixed cheek-piece 27 is an apertured cleat 30, there being a corresponding apcrtured cleat 31 extending from the hinged cheek-piccc 28. The cleat 30 is adapted to receive one end link 32 of a chain section, the opposite end link 33 of which is fitted over the cleat 31 and detachably secured thereto by means of a key-pin 3 t. The end link 32 oil the chain section is pern'lanently secured to the cleat 30 of the llxcd cheek-piece by means of a cotter-pin 30. Extending from the detachable end link 33 is a stripper-pin 35, which stripperpin is adapted to be engaged by a rod, chain or lariat, whereby the link is removed from the cleat after the key-pin has been ex tracted.

As shown in Figs. 1 and 2, the movable (-heelepiccc is closed and locked by the chain section to form a socket for the stake A and when it is desired to remove said stake the kcy p'in, as previously stated, is ext acted and thereafter the detachable end link 33 removed from the cleat, whereby pressure of the stake will cause the jaw member 28 to swing open, permitting the stake to drop from its seat in order to release the load.

Fig. 3 illuslratcs the stake-holder similar in construction to that previously described with the exception that the base-plate 26 is provided with rearwardly extended flanges :20 which :torm a socket for a transversely disposed bolster block 36, the same being secured to the bracket flanges by suitable bolts, as shown. The device previously described adapted to be tripped from the same side of the ca r to which it is applied, while that form of device shown in Fig. 3 is designed to be tripped from the opposite side of the car. \Vith this in View the releasable end link 33 is provided with a vertically extended stripper-pin 35, which stripper-pin is en a ed by an auxiliary link 3(3 of a trip chain or cable 37, the said end link 36 oil the trip-chain being also fitted over the cleat 31, whereby the key-pin 34 serves to hold both links in place. It is apparent from the foregoing description that when it is desired to trip the stake A in this instance after the key-pin has been removed that the operator, standing upon the oppo site side of the car, can manipulate the release chain 37, whereby its end link 86, together with the end link 33 of the chain section which connects the cheek-pieces is released from the cleat, thus permitting the hinged jaw 28 to swing open, whereby the stake will fall from its socket.

Fig. 4 illustrates still another form of my invention, wherein the base-plate 26 is provided with oppositely disposed sets of knuckles, between each of which sets is hinged a swinging cheek-piece 38, 38. These check-pieces carry apertured cleats 39, 39, and one of the cleats has permanently secured thereto the end link of a chain stretch 40, the said end link being locked by a cotter-pin all. The opposite end of the chain stretch is provided with a releasable link ll, which link is temporarily secured to the juxtaposed cleat 39 by a key-pin 42,

the said end link 41 being provided with a stripper-pin as. The chain section constituting means for locking the hinged cheekpieces together is manipulated in a manner similar to that previously described in connection with the other forms of my invention shown, it being apparent that when said cheekpieces are freed that they will swing open to permit the stake A that is socketed therein to fall from its seat, where by the load will be deposited at the side of the car corresponding to the released stakes.

I claim:

1. A stake holder comprising a bracket having a base-plate provided with cheekpieces extending therefrom, at least one of the cheek-pieces being in hinge connection with the base-plate to form a stake-socket, cleats extending from the cheek-pieces, a chain section permanently secured to one of the cleats and provided with an end link for engagement with the opposite cleat, means for detachably securing said end link to the cleat, and a stripper means in connection with said end link.

piece in hinge connection with the base-plate adapted to articulate with the fixed cheekpiece, an apertured cleat extending from each cheek-piece, a locking chain for the cheek-pieces having an end link permanently secured to one of the cleats, means for det-achahly securing the opposite end link of the locking chain section to the other cleat, and a stripper-pin carried by the detachable end link.

3. A stake-holder comprising a bracket having a base-plate and a fixed cheek-piece extending therefrom, apertured knuckles extending from the base-plate, a cheek-piece having an apertured ear for nested engagement with the knuckles, a pintle connecting the cheek-piece, ear and knuckles, a cleat extending from the fixed cheek-piece, a similar cleat extending from the movable cheekpiece, a locking chain section having an end link permanently secured to one of the cheek-pieces, means for temporarily securing the opposite end link to the other cleat, and stripper means in connection with the temporarily secured end link.

i. A stake-holder comprising a bracket having a base-plate and a fixed cheek-piece extending therefrom, a corresponding cheekpiece in hinge connection with the baseplate, the same being of less width than the fixed cheek-piece, a cleat extending from each cheek-piece, a chain section permanently secured to one of the cleats, means for temporarily securing the opposite end of the chain section to the other cleat, and means in connection with the chain section for stripping the same from that cleat to which it is temporarily secured.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand at Milwaukee in the county of Milwaukee and State of l/Visconsin in the presence of two witnesses.

CASPER FAUST.

Witnesses:

N. E. OLIPHANT,

M. E. DowNEY.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Eatents, Washington, D. G. 

